Category: Science fiction

I love science fiction. There are things I write which don’t really fit in the science category, but not in the tech or writing category either, so they end up here.

March 18, 2016 / Science fiction

Time Travel

When you think of a good idea for a science fiction story, time travel quickly comes to mind. Paradoxically, time travel stories are both incredibly hard to write and have been done to death. And then some.

Why do writers like them so much? What are some of the ideas and common pitfalls? I’ll talk about the first this week, and cover pitfalls in a second post.

January 1, 2016 / Reviews
November 27, 2015 / Science fiction

Stars

Have you ever seen an alien? Neither have I, or anybody else, as far as we know. That is actually quite strange, statistically speaking. This apparent paradox is known as the Fermi Paradox. It’s a very important paradox for science fiction, so I’m going to ramble about it a bit.